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We study scheduling problems on a machine with varying speed. Assuming a known speed function we ask for a cost-efficient scheduling solution. Our main result is a PTAS for minimizing the total weighted completion time in this setting. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Nicole Megow , José Verschae

We study various versions of the problem of scheduling platoons of autonomous vehicles through an unregulated intersection, where an algorithm must schedule which platoons should wait so that others can go through, so as to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Juan José Besa Vial , William E. Devanny , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich

Scheduling jobs with given processing times on identical parallel machines so as to minimize their total completion time is one of the most basic scheduling problems. We study interesting generalizations of this classical problem involving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Thomas Bosman , Martijn van Ee , Ekin Ergen , Csanad Imreh , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela , Martin Skutella , Leen Stougie

This paper introduces a problem in which the state of a system needs to be determined through costly tests of its components by a limited number of testing units and before a given deadline. We also consider a closely related search problem…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Alessandro Agnetis , Ben Hermans , Roel Leus , Salim Rostami

In this paper we study the classical single machine scheduling problem where the objective is to minimize the total weight of tardy jobs. Our analysis focuses on the case where one or more of three natural parameters is either constant or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Danny Hermelin , Shlomo Karhi , Mike Pinedo , Dvir Shabtay

Two multivehicle routing problems are considered in the framework that a visit to a location must take place during a specific time window in order to be counted and all time windows are the same length. In the first problem, the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-21 Greg N. Frederickson , Barry Wittman

We introduce a parallel machine scheduling problem in which the processing times of jobs are not given in advance but are determined by a system of linear constraints. The objective is to minimize the makespan, i.e., the maximum job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Zizhuo Wang

We study the fundamental scheduling problem $1\mid r_j\mid\sum w_j U_j$: schedule a set of $n$ jobs with weights, processing times, release dates, and due dates on a single machine, such that each job starts after its release date and we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Matthias Kaul , Matthias Mnich , Hendrik Molter

We consider the uniform parallel machines scheduling problem in the context of optimistic bilevel optimization, where two speed options are considered. In this scenario, the leader aims to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Quentin Schau , Olivier Ploton , Vincent T'kindt , Han Hoogeveen , Federico Della Croce , Jippe Hoogeveen

The ridesharing problem is that given a set of trips, each trip consists of an individual, a vehicle of the individual and some requirements, select a subset of trips and use the vehicles of selected trips to deliver all individuals to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Qian-Ping Gu , Jiajian Leo Liang , Guochuan Zhang

Budget Minimization is a scheduling problem with precedence constraints, i.e., a scheduling problem on a partially ordered set of jobs $(N, \unlhd)$. A job $j \in N$ is available for scheduling, if all jobs $i \in N$ with $i \unlhd j$ are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Marinus Gottschau , Felix Happach , Marcus Kaiser , Clara Waldmann

We provide new (parameterized) computational hardness results for Interval Scheduling on Unrelated Machines. It is a classical scheduling problem motivated from just-in-time or lean manufacturing, where the goal is to complete jobs exactly…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Danny Hermelin , Yuval Itzhaki , Hendrik Molter , Dvir Shabtay

This paper considers the scheduling of stochastic jobs on parallel identical machines to minimize the expected total weighted completion time. While this is a classical problem with a significant body of research on approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Marc Uetz , Rudy Zhou

In the pinwheel problem, one is given an $m$-tuple of positive integers $(a_1, \ldots, a_m)$ and asked whether the integers can be partitioned into $m$ color classes $C_1,\ldots,C_m$ such that every interval of length $a_i$ has non-empty…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Robert Kleinberg , Ahan Mishra

In the classical problem of scheduling on unrelated parallel machines, a set of jobs has to be assigned to a set of machines. The jobs have a processing time depending on the machine and the goal is to minimize the makespan, that is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack

The active-time scheduling problem considers the problem of scheduling preemptible jobs with windows (release times and deadlines) on a parallel machine that can schedule up to $g$ jobs during each timestep. The goal in the active-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Nairen Cao , Jeremy T. Fineman , Shi Li , Julián Mestre , Katina Russell , Seeun William Umboh

We consider fundamental scheduling problems motivated by energy issues. In this framework, we are given a set of jobs, each with a release time, deadline and required processing length. The jobs need to be scheduled on a machine so that at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Jessica Chang , Samir Khuller , Koyel Mukherjee

We consider the classic problem of scheduling a set of n jobs non-preemptively on a single machine. Each job j has non-negative processing time, weight, and deadline, and a feasible schedule needs to be consistent with chain-like precedence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-06 Hossein Efsandiari , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghyi , Jochen Koenemann , Hamid Mahini , David Malec , Laura Sanita

We study the problem of non-preemptively scheduling $n$ jobs, each job $j$ with a release time $t_j$, a deadline $d_j$, and a processing time $p_j$, on $m$ parallel identical machines. Cieliebak et al. (2004) considered the two constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-25 René van Bevern , Rolf Niedermeier , Ondřej Suchý

We investigate the recoverable robust single machine scheduling problem under interval uncertainty. In this setting, jobs have first-stage processing times p and second-stage processing times q and we aim to find a first-stage and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Matthew Bold , Marc Goerigk